Masaki Kashiwara wins the 2025 Abel Prize
On behalf of the European mathematical community, we congratulate Masaki Kashiwara, who has been awarded the 2025 Abel Prize “for his fundamental contributions to algebraic analysis and representation theory, notably the theory of D-modules and the invention of crystal bases.”
Kashiwara, professor emeritus at Kyoto University’s Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences (RIMS), is the first Japanese mathematician to receive the Abel Prize. He has been a central figure in the development of algebraic analysis—a field he helped to found under the guidance of his mentor Mikio Sato—bringing powerful algebraic techniques to the study of differential equations and laying the foundation for a vast array of mathematical advances.
His introduction of D-modules in the 1970s provided a unified framework for understanding the behavior of differential equations, while his discovery of crystal bases in representation theory has had deep influence in both mathematics and theoretical physics.
For a biography and full citation of the laureate, and to watch the announcement, see the Abel Prize webpage.
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